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Cargando... Stepantchikovo (1859)por Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Risking banishment from Mother Rus' literary revival tent, I had problems with this novel, which was principally a farce. It forms a pairing with Uncle's Dream and I find both wanting when considering The Eternal Husband. Considering its comedic trappings Dostoevsky is a bit catty towards Gogol here. The pantomime villain is a Rasputin of letters and all of his epigrams are iced with Gogol. I'm tempted to explore, was it a slight against Fyodor? Was it Gogol's orientation which made him a target or was it his holy roller novocaine? A college boy comes home to the sticks to find all has went to hell. A charlatan has everyone's ear and he's a Dr. Phil with a social program including teaching the serfs French. The real patriarch of the family is a bit of a buffoon. I thought what ensues is a touch whimsical. I understand that every narrative might not bear the benefit of a nihilist who ponders the morality of political terrorism. Momentarily I'm finding the search for benefit in this novel a challenge. The Village of Stepanchikovo is less well-known than other works of Dostoevsky's mature period. It was written near the end of his Siberian exile yet, despite that, was basically a farcical comedy. The abundant humor and small size combines to make it an entertaining work that is worthy as either an introduction to the author or a light entertainment for readers who have already encountered the masterful novels of his maturity. If it is read with the expectation that it will simply amuse and entertain you it will succeed. At least it did for this reader. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor's mother and now holds the entire household under his thumb. Watching the absurd theatrics of this domestic tyrant over forty-eight explosive hours, Sergey grows increasingly furious - until at last, he feels compelled to act. A compelling comic exploration of petty tyranny, The Village of Stepanchikovo reveals a delight in life's wild absurdities that rivals even Gogol's. It also offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of the characters and situations of many of Dostoyevsky's great later novels, including The Idiot, Devils and The Brothers Karamazov. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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